84 years ago, a woman borrowed a book from a library. This week, her son returned it

SHREVEPORT, La. – Shreve Memorial Library in Louisiana waived its $3 late fee for the man who returned a book more than eight decades later.

In 1934, the man’s mother checked out “Spoon River Anthology,” by Edgar Lee Masters, when she was 11. The book is a collection of poems written as first-person narratives by the dead residents of the fictional town of Spoon River, reflecting on their lives and deaths.